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Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced

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Google Chrome Might Have Installed an AI Model Onto Your Device Without You Knowing

Here's how to figure out if you have the 4GB AI model and how to get rid of it. 3 min read You might not have asked for an AI model on your computer, but you might have gotten it anyway. Google Chrome has been installing a 4GB

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Google Search Will Start Showing You More Ways to Go Down Rabbit Holes

Google is tweaking the tech behind its AI overviews in Search to expand the information it provides and the sources it pulls from. These updates are designed to help you "explore relevant websites, deep insights and original content," the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. But

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Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

Sensible oversight or censorship? Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing. This week, the Trump administration backpedaled and signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to run government safety checks on the firms’ frontier AI models before and after their release. Previously, Donald Trump had

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TSMC taps wind power as AI chip demand soars, Taiwan feels energy crunch

During an energy forum on May 6, Taiwan’s Vice Minister of Economic Affairs said that the government had secured enough oil and gas supplies to operate normally through August and possibly September, according to Taiwan News. But the global energy crisis is also spurring the Taiwanese administration of President

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Knowledge 2026 - CEO Bill McDermott was playing chess last year. Now he says ServiceNow manages everyone else's board

Last year at Knowledge 2025, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott told me his company was "playing chess, not checkers." I took that to mean a game of strategic patience - ServiceNow thinking several moves ahead while competitors reacted to the every latest update in the generative AI boom. He

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Google is not building a consultancy. It is writing a licensing agreement. That may be the smarter play.

TL;DR Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies access to Gemini models through omnibus licensing agreements. The approach is fundamentally different from OpenAI’s ten billion dollar Deployment Company and Anthropic’s 1.5 billion dollar Blackstone joint venture, both of which

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The UAE’s AI champion just leased a converted Minneapolis office. The irony writes itself.

TL;DR Core42, the cloud subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s G42 Group, has leased 20 megawatts in a converted office building in downtown Minneapolis. The company building the Stargate UAE campus is now filling American offices-turned-data-centres, part of a broader pattern in which the same AI systems emptying offices are

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Uber missed its revenue target. The stock jumped 10 per cent. Wall Street is pricing a different company.

TL;DR Uber missed Q1 revenue estimates by 90 million dollars and the stock jumped 10 per cent. Gross bookings surged 25 per cent to 53.7 billion dollars, autonomous trips grew tenfold, and the 50-million-member Uber One programme now accounts for more than half of all bookings. Wall Street

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Ukraine says robots seized enemy territory for the first time. The company behind them is now worth a billion dollars.

TL;DR UFORCE, a Ukrainian-British defence technology startup formed from nine merged companies, has conducted more than 150,000 combat missions, achieved a billion-dollar valuation, and is at the centre of what Ukraine says was the first military operation in history in which territory was seized using only robots and

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Nyobolt’s batteries charge in seconds and last 20,000 cycles. The customer that made it a unicorn is a warehouse robot.

TL;DR Cambridge battery startup Nyobolt has raised 60 million dollars at a one billion dollar valuation, led by Symbotic, the robotics company whose warehouse robots already run on Nyobolt’s ultrafast-charging niobium tungsten oxide cells. The batteries charge in under five minutes, survive 20,000 cycles, and target physical

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Snap lost a 400 million dollar AI deal, 20 million dollars a month to the Iran war, and 24 per cent of its stock price. The AR glasses had better work.

TL;DR Snap’s Q1 revenue grew 12 per cent to 1.53 billion dollars but the stock fell four per cent after the company disclosed that the Iran war cost it 20 to 25 million dollars in advertising revenue in March alone and confirmed it has ended its 400